Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comfort ably supplied with commissions. He proved himself the greatest portraitist of modern sculpture, immortalized hosts of the great (including the frozenly quizzical Somerset Maugham and the electric-haired "Ein") with dashing busts that almost seemed to breathe. "What could be more interesting," he demanded, "than a human face?" Epstein's female portraits were often busts in undress; he proved that breasts also can show personality...
...military relative. With high handed dispatch, he breaks up an affair between his luxury-loving cousin and a fifth-rate actress. Only when he gambles with his own son's life and loses, does so much as a shadow of remorse flicker across his cynical, craggy old face. And does the villain finally get his comeuppance? Not really. Presumably he goes on making bigger deals by day even if, in the wake of his son's suicide, he does not sleep well by night...
...Theater by Cinemactor Charles (Mutiny on the Bounty) Laughton last week, King Lear was an eye-rolling, tongue-lolling, hand-scrabbling, dirty old man. Above a billowing green gown that looked like a collapsed circus tent (but still could not hide the hefty Laughton paunch), the famed suet-pudding face was almost obscured by a wild halo of home-grown white whiskers and an unkempt shoulder-length mane of home-grown white hair. For the Bard's buffs, the sight and sound of Lear as a whimpering, elderly brat, a Captain Bligh without backbone, was something of a shock...
...moon-based songwriter would have his troubles; an obvious rhyme for earth is girth, and in the radiance of earthlight, a moon-maiden's face would shine bluish green. But if science fiction is somewhat short on romance, it does offer today's readers the kind of adventurous, he-man escape from gravity once found in turn-of-the-century western yarns-a commodity not to be dismissed in this day of beatniks and Angry Young...
...operations. The wounded came in a never-ending stream to tell in that flat soldier's monotone of the losing fight and lost friends. "Pretty nasty down at the bridge. The panzers got there earlier than we reckoned." "Frank, that's my mate, copped it. In the face-half of it blown right out." The British held the hospital for only 36 hours. On D-plus-one the Germans swamped the hospital area, took Paul prisoner with a shouted "Hände hoch!" Then it was his own countrymen that Paul worried about; he had to crouch...